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By T. J. ESTES, Lubbock, Tex. 

[Formerly of Yellville, Ark.] 


First Edition 

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INTRODUCTORY 


By T .J. Estes, Lubbock, Texas. 

(Formerly Yellville, Ark.) 

A fascinating story of love, romance and adventure. 
A true condensed picture of the best and the worst in 
life—the noble, unadulterated and natural side of life, 
and the debased, deformed and unnatural side of life. 

A young man of noble birth, right training, and 
best of environments, and a young man of wealthy 
birth, bad training and worst of environments. Yet, 
with the help of the other, he overcame all of these, and 
became a very useful and noble man. 

A beautiful Irish girl with a thrilling experience. 

A voyage, a shipwreck and escape of only these two 
young men to a lonely Island, where, after much hard¬ 
ships and privations, a village of friendly natives and 
the beautiful Irish girl are discovered, and great events 
follow. 

How did the Irish girl get there? Read and find 

out. 

An interesting, true and beneficial picture of life, 
character and noble deeds. 

Absolutely new and original from beginning to end. 
Nothing like it yet published. 

Written and published foi the good it may do, and 
to fill a vacant place in literature. 






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COPPYRIGHTBb 1923 

By T. J. ESTES, Lubbock, Tex. 
[Formerly of Yellville, Ark.] 



“Good-bye Tom. I wish you a pleasant voyage and 
a happy return,” said Jim Blagg to his intimate friend, 
Thomas Jerome, as Tom was taking his leave for a voy¬ 
age to the Southeast. Tom was the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Jerome, a sturdy and honest old couple, who lived on a 
Virginia farm, not far from a seaport. Tom was 21 
years of age, and had stayed with his parents, and had 
been kind, obedient and very helpful to them, so it was 
a very trying ordeal to them to give up their dearly be¬ 
loved son. And it was with a very sad heart that Tom 
bade his father and mother an unintended and unex¬ 
pected long farewell. For he didn’t expect to be gone 
more than a year at most. 

His parents had given him a good common school 
education, and had raised him to be truthful, honest, 
fair and just in all things, and he had so faithfully 
obeyed these injunctions and proven these qualities that 
his parents had implicit confidence in him, and they felt 
sure he would maks good wherever his lot might be 
cast. They felt sure that others would appreciate his 
good and manly qualities, as they themselvs did. Tom 
had never been away from the parental roof only for 
very short periods of time, and this voyage was to be 
only for a few months, so that made the parting easier, 
as they anticipated a happy reunion not more than a 
year hence. Although the parting gave them many 
heartaches, they were willing for their kind and loving 
son to get out and see some of the world. Besides, he 
was of age, anyway. 









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Tom and his friend, Jim Blagg, were soon on their 
way to the ship on which Tom was to sail. They made 
the trip in the family hack and started early, but it was 
mid-afternoon when they reached the port. The crew 
were busy getting ready to sail. He and his baggage, 
consisting of a trunk and small grip, were soon on board 
the ship. As the ship was nearly ready to sail, Jim 
waited to see Tom off. Soon the anchor was raised, the 
ship turned loose, and the sails spread to the gentle 
breeze. Tom was on deck to bid a last farewell to Jim, 
and it was then that Jim Blagg gave Tom the parting 
good-bye with which this story begins. 

As the sails adjusted themselves to the breeze, the 
ship turned and glided slowly away from shore, and 
after the ship got well out from shore, Jim was still 
standing and gazing, and Tom removed and waved his 
hat to Jim, and he waved back to Tom. Then after gaz¬ 
ing at the fading objects on shore until they became 
mere specks, Tom, with a sad, faint feeling, retired to 
the berth assigned to him. He was now all alone, as he 
wished to be, and he wept, as only a true and kind- 
hearted friend and a loving son can weep. For he now 
realized the fact that he might never see his dearly be¬ 
loved father and mother and his kind friends and the 
scenes of his childhood days again, and it was very 
probable that he, at least, would never see them all. 
When he had sufficiently recovered and gained control 
of his feelings, he returned on deck, but the ship had 
been moving away from land, and though he strained 
his eyes to see once more the parting shores of his na 
tive state, it was impossible. Nothing was visible to 
the naked eye but the broad expanse of water and some 
sea gulls returning from a little flight out to sea. The 
sun was going down behind the western horizon, and 
Tom returned once more to his allotted room, and after 
looking at a precious little book his mother had given 
to him (New Testament) , and some very precious pic¬ 
tures (to him), and musing for quite a while on the 
past—the childhood days, the school days, the home 
scenes, parental affections and the many friendships, 
pleasant associations and never-to-bq-forgotten exper¬ 
iences, the loving kindness of his parents, anti the re¬ 
ligious, moral and useful training and good advice they 
had given him, and their watchful care over and for 
him, their great confidence in him, their great hopes 




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and expectations for him and their great tru^t in him, 
for didn’t they know, or assuredly believe without a sin¬ 
gle doubt, that their noble, honest, true, generous and 
kind-hearted son deserved recognition and success, and 
would surely attain it anywhere and among any people. 
Tom realized all these facts, and they had a solacing and 
•comforting influence over him. They had a reassur¬ 
ing effect and were a great consolation to him, and they 
were great factors in shaping his life for usefulness and 
greatness, and it now being dark and the ship gliding 
gently over the smoothe, still waters, Tom undressed 
and stretched himself out on his cot, and was soon 
dreaming of home and home associations, for he had 
slept little the night before, as his friend, Jim Blagg, 
had spent the night with him, and they had much to 
talk about, and even after Jim was asleep, Tom lay 
thinking of the tomorrow’s parting. So now he slept 
so soundly this first night at sea, as the ship gently 
rocked, that the sun was brightly shining when he 
awoke. He was a little bewildered at first, but quickly 
realized where he was and was soon dressed and ready 
for his first full day out on the great ocean. 

Everything moved along smoothly and pleasantly 
for several days and Tom was enjoying the voyage, as 
well might be expected of young folks like him. But 
one day the conditions of the elements changed, and the 
weather rapidly grew threatening until at last the storm 
struck them in all of its fury, for although of short du¬ 
ration, It was a furious storm, and all was bustle and 
excitement. Life boats and life preservers were made 
ready for quick action, and orders and admonitions were 
given by the officers. Friendly and comforting words 
and advice passed from one to another. The winds 
blew, the storm raged, the ship swayed and rocked, the 
great waves crashed against the ship and the spray 
flooded the decks. It seemed that the ship with Its 
cargo, crew and passengers, were all doomed to destruc¬ 
tion and the end rapidly approaching. Tom was think¬ 
ing—yes, his mind was crowded to its full capacity with 
thoughts—but few were of himself. They were of 
home and loved ones left behind and now many watery 
miles away. At last he began to feel queer and sick, 
and managed to reach his berth, where he fell upon his 
cot and It seemed to him that he cared but little what 
happened. He was so miserably sick that he thought 









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he must surely die, andhcw. Nobody paid any attention 
to him in his berth, and Oh, how he did wish hq was at 
home with his dear mother, who never failed to render 
him aid, comfort and care when needed, and right now 
he thought he needed this motherly comfort and care 
more thap he ever had since infancy. He vomited until 
it seemed to him like everything he hed eaten for the 
last week had been pumped out of him, and finally he 
was so weak and sick and cared so little for life or what 
happened that he seemed to fall asleep or pass out of 
existence in some way. When he came to his under¬ 
standing again, the storm was over, but he felt so weak 
that he lay quietly for some time. At last a lady pas¬ 
senger stopped and looked in, for Tom hadn’t closed the 
door, and he said, “Please come in.” She went in and 
took a seat by Tom’s cot and cheered him up with kind 
words and assured him that he would be alright in a 
little while. She told him she had been through the 
same experience once and knew all about how he felt. 
She left him much benefitted, and sought others who 
needed her helpfulness, for Tom was not by far the only 
one that -was passing through the awful experience of 
a bad case of seasickness. 

Tom didn’t come out on deck until well along in the 
afternoon. The storm occurred in the night and had 
passed on before morning dawned again. So when Tom 
came out on deck again the sea was calm and the sun 
was brightly shining. Everything had been cleaned, 
dried and replaced, so all looked neat and natural as be¬ 
fore, and cheerfulness and good feeling was already re¬ 
turning to its normal state. 

Then the second pleasant stage of the voyage lasted 
for several days, and all went well and all seemed happy 
and full of life and enjoyment. But this was not to con¬ 
tinue, for the second storm was now brewing, and this 
one gradually increased in severity until they couldn’t 
keep their course. As the storm increased, the ship 
drifted more rapidly out of its course, in spite of every¬ 
thing the brave sailors could do- The storm began in 
the night and before morning it was raging. It was not 
a spasmodic storm or of short duration like the other. 
It was a continuous high wind, rising and falling just a 
little, but gradually increasing in violence until about 
noon the second day. In the forenoon of the second day 
the pilot discovered land ahead and breakers in the di- 





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rection that the wind was driving them. It was-not long 
until they could see the waves bursting on the rocks and 
the spray going high in the air. To the right there 
seemed to be no breakers, but it was impossible to keep 
the ship in the smooth water and off the breakers, 
which were now only a few miles away. Every exer¬ 
tion was put forth to avoid them. If they could only 
weather the storm and keep off of them a little longer, 
it was to be hoped that the fury would be spent and the 
storm would calm down so they could control the ship. 
But in this they were sadly disappointed > for they had 
not drifted much farther until they felt a grating under 
the hull of the ship, but it proceeded on In the same 
direction for a while, then another obstruction made it¬ 
self known by a harsh grating and a slight check in the 
ship’s progress. Two sailors went down into the hull 
and found it badly leaking, and pumps were brought 
into use, but in spite of every effort to pump the water 
out and to stop the inflow, it gained on them and the 
ship’s hull was gradually filling. Life boat® and life 
preservers were ready for use, and all realized the 
imminent danger. The wind was abating a little, but 
still drove the doomed ship to certain destruction. 
Despair was now visible on every face, but this time 
Tom was alert and anxiously watching every mvement 
of the captain and crew, and he already had on his life 
preserver. At last there was an awful crash that threw 
many prostrate on the floor. The ship had suddenly 
stopped, and it swerved, rocked, squeaked and cracked, 
for it was breaking to pieces. Many jumped into life 
boats and cleared the ship, only to be capsized and 
drowned. Some jumped overboard with life preservers 
on,but they all went down under the relentless waves. 
Tom and some others were in a life boat and were some 
distance from the ship, now rapidly going to pieces, 
when a great rolling wave overturned their boat and all 
were thrown out. The next wave righted the boat 
again, and Tom and another man came up, one on one 
side and the other on the other side of the boat and each 
grasped the side of the boat and managed to get in. 
Still gripping the sides, they held fast, and in this po¬ 
sition were carried on and on by the storm and wave3, 
which were now abating. They were drifting toward 
the land that was now not far away, and their hopes 







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were reviving. Their boat passed many boulders, but 
the waves carried them around. The speed of the boat 
slackened as the storm abated,, but they kept nearing the 
shore- At last, after riding a rather high wave, they 
felt the boat lightly strike the soft sandy bottom, and 
after this being repeated several times, they decided to 
leave the boat when the waves receded, and run with 
the outgoing tide until it began to recede again, and 
brace themselves against it as best they could until they 
could proceed again. And in this manner, at last they 
reached the shore. Now almost completely exhausted, 
they threw themselves prostrate on the warm, dry sand 
and were soon soundly sleeping. 

The sun was rising in bright splendor when Tom 
awoke and then awakened his friend. They were 
greatly refreshed and their appetites were keen for they 
had eaten nothing for about forty hours, and the physi¬ 
cal and mental strain had been very great. But where 
was anything to be found to eat? Tom suggested that 
they go out into the scrubby timber that sorted the 
shore and see if they could find some berries, wild 
fruits or antyhing they could eat to appease their hun¬ 
ger and sustain life, for even in their desolate and for¬ 
lorn condition, they still had some remote hope and de¬ 
sire to live. They searched quite a while without suc¬ 
cess, but along in the evening they discovered some slow 
moving animal, and gave chase. They soon overtook it, 
and with some handy stones they quickly killed it. Tom 
had a good stout pocket knife in one pocket, and his 
friend had a fancy little pen knife. They didn’t know 
what the animal was, but they soon had it dressed and 
dispatched a iiortion of it in its raw state, and hung the 
balance up in a small tree for breakfast next morning. 
Then they went back down on the beach, some distance 
from the timber, and sat down and talked a while as to 
what they should do under the circumstances, in their 
desolate and needy condition. 

Tom’s companion proved to be a Chicago city rais¬ 
ed young man, whose parents were wealthy. His fath¬ 
er was a politician, banker, promoter and an all-round 
schemer, and this young man, whose name was William 
(Bill) Bond, was well educated and also well trained in 
his father’s business, schemes and speculations, as 
proven later on. 

After talking for quite a while, Tom told Bill to go 





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to sleep and he would keep watch until midnight, and 
then he would sleep while Bill watched, for they feared 
the wild beasts of that desolate island. “No, you sleep 
first, and Ill watch," Bill said. Tom agreed, t and was 
soon soundly sleeping. Along about midnight Bin 
awakened Tom, and he guarded while Bill slept. Day 
dawned, and Tom, without disturbing Bill, arose and 
walked off down to the shore in search of oysters. Af¬ 
ter a while, he found some and opened them with his 
stout pocket knife and ate them raw, and then gathered 
up some more for Bill. As he was returning, Bill awoke 
and heard quite a noise in the direction of their meat 
hung up in the tree, and discovered some wild beasts 
fighting over the meat, and being rather frightened, 
with no arms but a small pen knife, he started to meet 
Tom, whom he saw returning. The wild beasts, seeing 
Bill, took fright and scampered away into the forest. 
Bill ate the oysters that Tom had brought him., and then 
they went to the tree to investigate, and they found 
their meat gone, and some tracks like large dog tracks, 
and seme tracks of a smaller animal. The small ani¬ 
mal had gone up, and brought the meat down, or let it 
fall, and the larger animals were fighting over it when 
Bill was awakened from his sleep by the noise. This in¬ 
cident increased Bill’s fears, and he suggested that they 
make some better preparations for the next night. So 
they decided to hunt for a low tree with branching limbs 
running rather straight out from the body, and carry 
short poles and make a scaffold up in the tree to sleep 
on. And after finding a suitable tree, not very difficult 
to climb, they got busy carrying poles and arranging 
them and soon had a scaffold done, and then carried 
green limbs with the leaves on and carefully arranged 
them on top of the poles for bedding. They also pre¬ 
pared some heavy dubs with which to defend themselves 
from wild beasts, should any attempt to climb to them. 
Now being almost famished for water, they betook 
themselves to a search for frseh water. They searched 
in one direction along the beach near the timber line, 
without success, and then searched in the other. Fi¬ 
nally, when almost in despair, on approaching a ledge of 
rodv they discovered a wet, seepy place at the base, and 
with sticks, sharpened with Tom’s knife, they dug out 
a hole that soon filled with wafer. They were so fam¬ 
ished that they didn’t wait for the water to clear, but 






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drank enough while it was still muddy to partially ap¬ 
pease their thirst. Then after it had cleared they 
drank more. Near there they found oysters more plen¬ 
tiful, and they decided to construct another lodging 
place here, but returned to the one already prepared for 
that night. It also came in handy at other times. 

Now they had found fresh water and plenty of oys¬ 
ters—water to drink and something to eat. But there 
was still one other great essential- fhe to cook with. 
Raw meat and raw oysters was a poor diet. So the 
next great problem to solve was how to get fire. Tom, 
being raised on the farm, knew that if he could get some 
very doty wood or soft substance, like spunk, that would 
easily ignite, like he had often seen back at hottie, he 
might strike fire with his knife and a flint rock. By a 
long and careful search, a good flint was found, and also 
some very dry, doty wood, which they powdered very 
fine, and Tom went to work in earnest to get fire. It 
was a long time before his efforts were crowned with 
success. A few sparks caught, but failed to hold. But 
at last he was rewarded, for a little smoke and a little 
fire appeared and gradually grew until success was as¬ 
sured. Then they added small twigs until it got well 
under way, and then piled on logs and made a good fire 
that would keep, and then went for a supply of oysters 
for supper, which they roasted in their shells and ate to 
their satisfaction. They had returned to their bunk in 
the tree and slept the night before without any disturb¬ 
ance, except some howling by wild beasts, but none, to 
their knowledge, approached very near them. 

They had found the life boat they had floated to 
shore on, left out on the dry beach, and next morning 
as the tide was rising and coming nearer the boat, which 
they had emptied of water and sand, they got stout poles 
and began working one end of the boat around a little 
and then the other, until they met the tide which had 
now reached its highest, and soon began to recede, and 
thus succeeded in getting it afloat. They pushed out 
into the water some distance and with a piece of timber 
found on the beach, they drove a pole into the soft sand 
and tied the boat to it with a piece of rope that was still 
fastened to the boat, and then waded out to shore. 

Next morning the tide was low and the water had 
cleared up, so Bill and Tom were up early for a trip out 
to where the wreck occurred, and after partaKing of 





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roasted oysters for breakfast, they took some oars they 
had found that had floated out from the lost boats and 
got into the boat, now near the edge of the water, and 
rowed out to where the wreck occurred. 

They had found parts of the wreckage, some of 
which had small, lengthy bolts in it, and they made a 
hook out of one of these bolts and made it secure to the 
end of a rope, so as to raise things they might find that 
could be raised with it. 

They hadn’t reached the great rock on which the 
ship was wrecked when they began to find parts of the 
wreckage and baggage in the bottom, but they went on 
until they found the great solid rock that had com¬ 
pletely wrecked the ship and sent all on board to a wat¬ 
ery grave except Bill and Tom. The top of the rock was 
now just a little under water, and all round it was heavy 
parts and pieces of wreckage and cargo. They com¬ 
menced diving, one at a time, and hooked the rope to 
trunks and other articles,- and they soon had the boat 
loaded and took it to shore and returned for another 
load. This was repeated several times that day, and at 
night they had 12 trunks, some heavy boxes and much 
other valuables on shore. Among other things were 
two chopping axes and a good set of carpenters and ship 
builders tools, though not all found together. Some of 
the trunks were only clasped, and after being carried 
back a safe distance, as was also the other stuff, were 
easily opened, and the locked trunks were picked or the 
locks pried loose, and all were turned so the water would 
run out. They had brought fire and wood to cook sup¬ 
per and to keep a light to work by, and it was far into 
the night when they got through. And as they thought 
no wild beast would come near the fire, they put on 
some more fuel, and with the sandy beach for a bed, 
were soon soundly sleeping by the fire. 

At early dawn Tom awoke, as he used to at home, 
and arousing his sleeping partner, they soon had break¬ 
fast, and were ready for another good day’s work- 
They first spread out clothing and fabrics and a lot of 
other stuff that was damaging most to dry out. Some 
they washed out first. This was quite a job, and it was 
noon before they got ready for another trip, but that 
evening they brought some more of the cargo to shore. 
By next morning the tide was rising again, and they 
turned their attention to cleaning up what they had al¬ 
ready saved, and other matters of necessity. 




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That night, after eating their scanty supper of 
roasted oysters, Tom said to Bill:- “What’s ftie use of 
us working and starving this way, trying to save all we 
can of this wreckage instead of hunting for something 
to eat, when there may not be another human being on 
this island, and we may never be permitted to see anoth¬ 
er human being, and may have to spend the remainder 
of our lives here on this desolate island? Even if the 
island is inhabited by some wild tribe, they may rob and 
murder us.” “You are right, Tom,” said Bill. And 
they made but little further effort to save any more of 
the wreckage, but spent most of their time bunting for 
nuts, berries, wild fruits, gathering oysters, capturing 
such game as they could, and fishing, for they found 
hooks and lines in some of the trunks. 

They reloaded their goods and took it to xne spring, 
and as they now had axes, tools, nails and some lumber 
that had floated to shore, they cut some small logs and 
carried them together and erected a house, covered it 
and made a door out of the lumber. So now they were 
fairly fixed and secure from wild beasts. They then 
had but little to do but fish and hunt and read such 
books as they had saved. Tom had the precious little 
book that his mother had given him, for his trunk was 
among those recovered, but it was badly damaged. 

They explored the nearby portion of the island, but 
as yet had not discovered any sign of human habitation, 
apart from themselves. 

One day they were out on a hunt and discovered a 
small cub bear soundly sleeping, and Tom had made a 
bow and some arrows with sharp spikes on xhe ends, as 
he used to when a boy, but better, and Bill had one of 
the axes, and they crept up close to it before it discover¬ 
ed them. Tom was ready and sent a sharp spike into 
its body that brought forth a cry of pain, and in a mo¬ 
ment they saw the mother bear rushing upon them. 
Bill squared himself with the axe, and Tom adjusted an 
arrow, for escape was impossible. As the bear was near¬ 
ly to them, Tom sent another sharp spike into the old 
bear’s breast, for she was now on her hind feet ready to 
strike. Bill struck a quick blow with the axe that 
knocked her down, but still she fought. Tom sent three 
more arrows into her in quick succession, and Bill re¬ 
peated his blows with the axe, and finally they succeed¬ 
ed in killing her, but both of them were feeling some 






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pain from her vicious attack, and their clothes were 
badly torn. The cub had gone up a leaning tree near by, 
and after Tom had sent several arrows into its body, it 
fell out and Bill quickly finished it with the axe. They 
now had meat to last them for quite a while,' but no 
bread to go with It. 

They became anxious to investigate their newly 
discovered country, so they prepared some rations and 
started out on an exploring expedition, expecting to re¬ 
turn in two or three days. They took their axe, bow 
and arrows along, and traveled all of the first day with¬ 
out making any special new discovery, and slept in a 
scrubby tree that night, prepared somewhat like their 
first elevated bunk. Their position was rather uncom¬ 
fortable, and they heard wild beasts during the night, 
but none; made any attack, but kept them awake most 
all of the night. 

Next m ming they intended starting back to their 
cabin, and did start in what they thought was that di¬ 
rection, but there was a very heavy fog that lasted un¬ 
til noon, and they traveled on and on in uncertainty, but 
believing they were going toward their little island 
home, but evidently they were either going the other 
way or in a circle, as people often do when lost, they be¬ 
came so bewildered. When it cleared up about noon, 
they discovered a high hill, or small mountain, in the 
distance—it proved to be some 8 or 10 miles away—and 
they decided to go to the top of it and get a view of the 
surrounding country. On their way to the mountain, 
they came onto a young doe that seme wild beast had 
killed, and after eating its fill, had left it. It was still 
warm, so the beast was likely not far away. They has¬ 
tily cut out some of the best, as their provisions were 
running low, and proceeded on their way. They hadn’t 
gone far when they saw something that looked like 
a panther, quietly sleeping ahead of them and a little to 
the left. They didn’t want to disturb it or form any 
further acquaintance with it, so they carefuuy backed 
off and circled to the right, keeping out or sight and 
quite a ways from it. 

They ascended to the top of the mountain and were 
viewing the surrounding country when Bill exclaimed, 
“Wliat’s that over yonder?” as he pointed to the object 
discovered. “It looks like a little town with open coun¬ 
try around,” he continued. After taking a good look in 






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the direction indicated, Tom replied,, “It sure does look 
like a large village, anyway, and small farms around it, 
and that this island is inhabited by some sort of human < 
beings, and we must try to make friends of them.” Bill 
didn’t like the idea and said, “They’ll kill us.” Tom 
said, “We wouldn’t be much worse off than we are, and 
it’s worth trying. If we can’t make friends of them, 
maybe we can escape,- for a while, at least.” 

As they talked, Tom saw some moving object- in the 
forest below, not more than a mile away. It looked like 
some sort of wagons and teams, and Tom said, “Ill see 
what it is, and if people, I’ll see if we can make friends 
of thm,” and suiting his actions to his words, he start¬ 
ed to intercept, them. They didn’t discover him until 
he was within three hundred yards of them. Then the 
earts, wagons or whatever they might be called, and. 
gazed at Tom, who proceeded slowly toward them.. As¬ 
he approached them, he motioned them to come, and 
they, seeing that Tom was alone and there was three 
of them, they didn’t fear him much, and they slowly ad¬ 
vanced until they met, and as they met, both Tom and: 
they made signs of friendship. Tom advanced, with 
his right hand extended, and they took him by the hand 
with a friendly grip. Tom smiled pleasantly, as he put 
his hand on his breast and pointed toward their village, 
and they understood him, and pointed to themselves^ 
then to him, and then to their village, as much as to 
say, “Come and go with us and live with us.” 

Bill had followed Tom at a distance, and was watch¬ 
ing these proceedings, unobserved by them, but Tom 
looked back and saw Bill slowly approaching. Then, 
turning to his new friends, he pointed to himself, then 
to Bill, whom they now saw, then to them, and lastly to 
the village. And they understood that Bill wanted to 
go with them also, and motioned him to come on. When 
Bill came to them, he also shook hands with tnem and 
pointed to their village. One of them motioned Tom 
and Bill to come with him, and conducted them to the 
village, and the other two proceeded on their mission, 
whatever. that was. Tom and Bill showed their new 
friend the fresh meat they had cut from the deer’s car¬ 
cass, and he smiled and pointed to his mouth. 

After a long walk, they reached the village, and 
their guide conducted them to the chief’s Ueaciquarters 
and explained to the chief that they wanted to live with 





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Lis people. Then the chief advanced, and taking them 
by the right hands, he gave them a hearty shake and a 
cordial reception, and told the guide to conduct them to 
certain quarters for present lodging. 

Now, there was a beautiful white girl in the vil¬ 
lage, that was greatly loved and respected by all of the 
inhabitants, and in manner and complexion she resem 
bled these white men, so the chief, next morning, sent 
for the girl, and also for the two men, to come to his 
quarters. And as she approached them, the greatly 
surprised white men politely bowed, and the girl, Who 
was very much surprised also, said to them, “Are you 
from England?” And the men, in great joy, answered, 
‘No, we are from America-” Then after a few pleas¬ 
antries and expressions of joy over the new affinity and 
acquaintanceship, Tom and Bill gave a brief narration 
of their voyage and shipwreck to the girl, and she ex¬ 
plained it tto the chief, who showed them great courtesy, 
and had an apartment especially prepared for them, and 
the girl was permitted to converse freely with them at 
her own pleasure. And they went into further details 
concerning their recent experiences and also their early 
life. 

The girl had a fairly good education, and knew the 
geography of the world, and as they were from the TJ. S. 
A., she rightly guessed that their cabin and the place of 
the wreck were on the west side of the island, and all 
thes facts she explained to the chief, and that they had 
saved a lot of stuff from the wreckage. Tom and Bill 
had become so' bewildered in the fog that they had a 
poor idea as to the direction of their late home. The 
chief offered men and conveyances to go with Tom and 
Bill to bring their possessions to the village, and the 
girl told all of this to them, and they gladly accepted the 
offer, and the next day preparations were maae for the 
trip. Six men, four teams and vehicles, and supplies 
were prepared to go with them, and early the next morn¬ 
ing they started on the trip. Toward the close of the 
second day, they came in sight of the shore, or rather 
the water. The sun was low in the west and they could 
see the reflection on the water, but when they reached 
the beach, it was too late fo search for their cabin, so 
they camped there for the night- Next morning Bill 
and Tom each took a man, and Bill went north and Tom 
went south, and the teams and drivers were to remain 






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there for further developments. About 8 a. m., Tom 
thought he discovered familiar scenes near the cabin, 
and before proceeding another half mile, he was thor¬ 
oughly convinced, and turned back. And before noon, 
he and his man were back at the camp again. And 
leaving the man that had accompanied Tom to wait 
for the return of Bill and his man and inform them, the 
others proceeded to the- cabin, which they reached be¬ 
fore sundown, and gathered a supply of oysters for sup¬ 
per. Everything was about as they left it. 

Bill and the other two men got in about 10 p. m.. 
and they were very tired from walking, so they were 
permitted to rest and sleep until late next morning. But 
Tom and the others were up early and were busy cook¬ 
ing, loading and getting ready for the return trip, and 
after loading all they could take, quite a lot of stuff was 
left. By 7 a. m. they were on their way back, but on a 
more direct line. Some little work had to be done, in 
clearing the way, but it was open forest and very little 
obstruction ail the wav, going and coming. A little af¬ 
ter dark the second day they reached the village and 
were greeted with a hearty welcome. The white girl 
and a native girl that lived with her had a neat little 
habitation, all to themselves, and no one was allowed to 
intrude or molest them. This was by order of the 
chief, and no one dared disregard it. But Bill had not 
been informed on this point, and soon after his arrival, 
though after dark, he went to the girls' quarters and 
presented himself at the entrance. The white girl, 
whose name was Nina O'Shea, stepped into the doorway. 
Bill saluted her and said: “I’ve been away so long that 
I just eouddn’t wait until tomorrow to talk with you 
some, and of course he expected Nina to invite him in, 
but in this he was disappointed, for she remained stand¬ 
ing in the doorway, but talked to him in a very pleasant 
way about their trip and other topics. At last Bill, who 
nad moved in high society, became so exasperated at 
the situation of standing outside, while the young lady 
on whom he had called continued standing in the door¬ 
way, thus shutting him out, while the people gazed, was 
so unconventional to a wealthy city raised young man, 
as he was, that he couldn’t longer forbear, and he said 
“Miss Nina, aren’t you going to ask me in?” “You will 
please excuse me, Mr. Bond,” said Nina. “By these 
people, and especially at this hour, you would be con- 





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sidered an intruder, and we would both lose their re¬ 
spect/to some degree at least- The chief has so order¬ 
ed, and they are very strict to see that no one disturbs, 
intrudes or molests us in any way, and I assure you that 
it would not meet with their approbation, should we ad¬ 
mit you, a strange, white man, at this hour.” “Oh, I 
understand, and beg your pardon,” said Bill, as he turn¬ 
ed to go, and bade her good-night However, resent¬ 
ment rankled in the heart of this vain, frivolous, city 
raised young man. To think that he, a wealthy bank¬ 
er’s son, a city sport, and always used to having his own 
way, and to being admired and petted by the society la¬ 
dies of Chicago and America, thus to be treated by a 
young lady and a gang of uncivilized heathen, was too 
much for his vanity. It reflected too much on his no¬ 
bility and position in high society, he thought. As had 
been his custom, he was only thinking of himself and his 
own selfish ambition. He was not considering the pro¬ 
priety or the real manly and lady side of the question, 
or the rights of these uncivilized heathens, as he termed 
them. Had he considered the other side of the ques¬ 
tion, he might have taken it as a gentle and well deserv¬ 
ed rebuke, and a good lesson on morality and good man¬ 
ners and real civilization and refinement; but instead of 
this, he considered it rude, improper, impolite and ab¬ 
surd. 

Next morning, Tom met Nina and her girl friend, 
and he politely saluted them and requested an interview, 
and there being a nice place under the thick foliage 
of a large tree nearby, at Nina’s suggestion, they went 
there and sat down—Tom, Nina and the other girl, 
whose name was Teela. And Nina told Tom of Bill’s 
visit the night before. Tom listened until she had stat¬ 
ed all the facts and given complete explanation and ex¬ 
pressed her fears that the young man would be offend¬ 
ed, and had requested Tom to further express her apol¬ 
ogies to Bill. Then Tom replied: “My much admired 
lady, please let me assure you that he has already re¬ 
ceived much more apologies than he deserves; but in¬ 
stead, he should apologize to you girls for his own im¬ 
politeness in calling at that late hour, as he did. He 
told me about it, and it sure did give his vanity and ego¬ 
tism a jolt. You see, Bill’s whole life has tended in the 
wrong direction—by habit, training and association, 
and Bill is just what these have made him. He is a 




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pretty good chum and a very intelligent fellow, and I ad¬ 
mire him very much, in spite of his faults, for which he 
himself is very little to blame; for he, like all others, 
is the creature and creation of environments, associa¬ 
tions and education. Had these been different, then 
Bill would have been different. Custom, fashion, popu¬ 
larity and prevailing public opinion have much to do 
with shaping our lives, and as to what we do and how 
we live. I am sure if we all lived a natural life, as God 
intended we should live, there would be but little or no 
incentive or desire to do wrong or to wrong each other. 
It is cultivated selfishness, covetousness, greed for gain 
and power, unnatural and abnormal state of mind, warp¬ 
ed and misguided intelligence and a bad state of society 
that causes us to want to do wrong and to wrong each 
other. Then talk about the average of the Bi# City civ¬ 
ilization and refinement, purely from a moral, human 
and natural standpoint, as compared with these un¬ 
taught, uncontaminated, natural, true and honest peo¬ 
ple of the wild forest, with true affections and innocent 
state of mind, clear of all big city influences and the 
vices and corruptions of so-called civilization, and I de¬ 
clare these so-called uncivilized heathens far ahead. 
Well, Miss Nina, I hope you will pardon me for monopo¬ 
lizing so much of your time,” said Tom. “Mr. Jerome, 
you certainly have both my pardon and my appreciation 
for your elucidation of these real and truthful facts, and 
all of the monopolized time. I was greatly interested, 
and I assure you that I heartily agree with you,” Nina 
said. Then, after a few more remarks, pro and con, 
Tom bade the girls good-bye and returned to his work, 
for he was, as he had been taught and as he had lived at 
home, a very busy man. He always tried to occupy his 
time at something useful and beneficial, either to him¬ 
self or to someone else, and much of it was for others or 
the public good; for he realized the fact that as he help¬ 
ed others, he also helped himself, for Tom had a kind 
heart and an unselfish nature, and liked to see others 
benefitted. 

Nina was a very intelligent girl, and it was a great 
pleasure to both Tom and Bill to converse with her, and 
they took advantage of every reasonable opportunity. 
But they were all very busy. Tom, in particular, was 
busy planning improvements and putting them into exe¬ 
cution, for with their superior knowledge, they could see 





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many ways and opportunities for improvement. One 
of the first was the inauguration of night schools, free 
for all, and Nina, Bill and Tom were the teachers. But 
Nina had already been instructing the Islanders, and the 
children, in particular, were now learning quite fast; and 
in this way things moved on smoothly for some time. 

Tom noticed that Bill was meditating quite a bit, 
of late, about something, and finally, one day at dinner, 
Bill, who had been planning much, but keeping it all to 
himself, said to Tom: “Old pard, I have been looking 
over the situation, with the possibilities and opportuni¬ 
ties of this island, the last few days', and I have formu¬ 
lated just a few of the many schemes and plans to turn 
them to our advantage. With our superior knowledge, 
experience and training, we can accumulate vast for¬ 
tunes. We know how to plan and perform, and we 
knew how to get the best of every deal, especially with 
ignorant people like these. We can shape everything 
to suit ourselves and to make it work to our advantage. 
We can fool these ignorant people, and by sophistry and 
plausible arguments and by distorting facts and cover¬ 
ing up truth, when necessary, we can make most any¬ 
thing go, and look to them like the real thing—just right 
and just what they need. Gee, just look at these fine 
forests and lands, and they are now using but a few 
acres here around this village. Then just think how 
easily we can plan and scheme so as to get possession of 
the greater portion and best of it. Then think how we 
might establish trade with the outside world, build 
ships and control export, import and exchange. We 
could install mills and factories, and have cheap labor to 
run them. We could handle and control all valuable pro¬ 
duction, and buy and sell at our own prices. We can 
control all trade, traffic, transportation, and we can in¬ 
stall a banking system, so as to control all finance and 
mediums of exchange; and of course with all of these 
under our control, we will virtually own the people, and 
we can dictate and establish their laws and regulations, 
and control their labor and even their lives. We can 
inaugurate whatever we want, and obstruct or abolish 
what we do not want; put those into official positions 
that will do our bidding, organize a police force to pro¬ 
tect us and our interests, establish a news service that 
will color things to suit us and cover up the truth with 
deception and falsehood, when necessary, and publish 




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nothing detrimental to our interests. Now, with all 
these under our control, and incidentally, much more, 
and with everything working to our interest and paying 
tribute, direct or indirect, to us, and with these people 
giving us the greater portion of all they produce, and 
paying us twice the cost of what they buy, and with 
trained men to manage everything for us, we can just 
sit back and watch the dollars pile up. And this is just 
a little outline of what we can do, Tom. We know by 
experience, Tom, that all this, and much more, has been 
done, and we can do it again. It’s a great and interest¬ 
ing game, Tom, and we had just as well ply it as any¬ 
body else. Of course, we must make them believe we 
are absolutely essential, and they can’t get along with¬ 
out us and our help.” 

Tom had listened very attentively until now, when 
he broks in with: “Say, Bill, aren’tthese people get¬ 
ting along fairly well at present, and aren’t they enjoy¬ 
ing life the best of any people you ever saw, and were’nt 
they doing the same for no telling how long before they 
ever saw us, or perhaps any other shark?” 

“Yes,” said Bill, “I know that is true, but I’m not 
considering them, only from a business standpoint.” 

“Bill, do you mean to say you weigh your own indi¬ 
vidual, selfish interests against the public good and gen¬ 
eral public interests of the whole people of this Isand?” 

“Yes,” said Bill, “that’s exactly what I mean, if you 
will include my colleague, which, in this case, is your 
own dear self.” 

“And you and I virtually nothing but intruders and 
interlopers, or to put it more mildly, guests of an inno¬ 
cent, kind and unsuspecting people?” said Tom. 

These questions were too hard for Bill, and he said: 
“Well, Tom, let’s drop the subject for the present, and 
after you have thoroughly weighed and considered the 
proposition, maybe you’ll not be such a fool, if you’ll al¬ 
low the expression. But please dont say anything to 
Miss Nina about it.” So the mtater was dropped, for a 
time, and left for Tom to ponder over. Bill thought he 
might take what he considered the sensible view of the 
matter, after due consideration. But there was no 
room in Tom’s head for harboring such ideas, or place 
in his heart for their execution. 

No doubt, there is some curiosity in your mind, 







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dear reader, to know where this beautiful white girl, 
Nina O’Shea, the adorable pet and queen of these simple, 
honest, faithful and true people, came from—how she 
got there, and for what purpose or intent she was 
•brought there. Of course, you have already guessed 
that she was of Irish descent, by her name. In that, 
you are right, but how did she get to this Island? you 
say. Well, she had some thrilling and trying exper¬ 
iences before she was installed with her kind and devot¬ 
ed little girl friend in their pleasant, private quarters 
in th village. , A 

We will now go back a year or more, and tell the 
tale, as she told it to Tom one pleasant evening, as they 
sat under the shade of a great spreading oak tree. Tom 
had asked these questions before, but she had put off 
answering them for a more suitable time, when she 
would have time to go into details, and now was the 
time, so she proceeded as follows: 

“My native home is in Ireland. My mother died 
about four and a half years ago. It was in December, 
and the weather was very cold. I had a little sister, one 
year old, and she took pneumonia from that day’s ex¬ 
posure, and died in less than two weeks. I have one 
sister, older than I, and two brothers younger. I was 
fifteen years of age when my mother died. About four 
months after my mother died, an English officer, the 
son of an English nobleman, stopped at our house one 
•day for dinner, and I caught him looking at me several 
times during his stay, and he managed to engage with 
me in conversation for a short while before he left. 
Shortly after that, he was back again, and then his 
visits became frequent. He was a fine looking man. 
seemed real nice and genteel, and my father took a great 
liking to him. But while I enjoyed his company fairly 
well I gave him little encouragement to contmue his 
visits. But he kept on coming, and my father rather 
encouraged him, and my father often talked to nie about 
what a fine fellow he was, and of his high official po¬ 
sition, and of his father’s wealth, honor and distinction, 
and of the young officer’s fine inheritance. A few 
months later, this young man insisted on me marrying 
him, and my father insisted, also. The young man, 
whose name was Crocker, a Colonel in the British army, 
kept coming and kept insisting, but I told him time and 
again that I didn’t love him. But still he persisted, and 











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said he would make me love him. I asked him how he 
would make me love him, and he said, by kindness and 
by giving you everything you want; for 1 have plenty of 
money, and my father is a rich English: nobleman.” My 
father kept insisting, and even acted tyrannical, and I 
became afraid of him. 

“One day Col. Crocker insisted on me telling him 
why I couldn’t love him, and I told him that I despised 
English tyranny over the Irish people—I abhorred mil¬ 
itarism, and 1 hated war, and he always kept these 
things on my mind when he was around.. He laughed 
and didn’t seem to get out of humor at all, and told me 
those were just some little petty, foolish ideas of mine 
that I was cultivating, and that I could easily get rid of 
them if I’d try. I told him, ‘No, my abhorrance of these- 
things was indelibly fixed in my mind and conscience, 
and it could never be erased.’ And I reiterated, ‘Brit¬ 
ish rule, I despise; militarism, I abhor, and war, I hate.’ 
That English tyranny was hateful, militarism was use¬ 
less and expensive, and war was both. That war was 
murder, barbarism, and absolutely wrong, useless and 
sinful. That there was no more reason for nations 
fighting, burning, destroying, maiming and killing each 
other, than there was for neighbors doing these things. 
That as we have state and national laws, even so, we 
could have international laws to settle international, 
troubles. 

“One day he came, seemingly very much elated 
about something, and I said, ‘What’s the surprise?’ 
He said, ‘A lot of young folks are going out on a pleasant 
voyage, and I just hurried down to see if you would; 
grant me the great pleasure of taking you along- with 
us as my guest.’ I told him I didn’t want to go. Then 
he urged, insisted, begged and plead with me to go, but 
I wouldn’t agree to go. Then he talked to my father 
and sister about it, and after he had gone away, much 
disappointed, my sister insisted on me going, and my 
father even called me a fool for not going, and he got 
very angry at me for mistreating Col. Crocker, and he 
said I ought to be put into a Catholic convent and never 
let out. 

“Well, with all the harangue, persistence and per¬ 
suasion by father, sister and Col. Crocker, I was ready 
when he came again next day, to agree to go. Every- 






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Thing was painted in such glowing colors, and made to 
look so lovely, pleasant and plausible. The very next 
day was the time set to start, and all was hurry and 
buste to /get ready. I asked him if any of my girl 
friends or acquaintances were going, and he said, ‘Sure, 
but I really don’t know just who, for I just heard of the 
trip yesterday, and haven’t had opportunity to find out.’ 

“Col. Crocker seemed so nice and gentlemanly, and 
was so desirous that I should go, that I thought if the 
pleasure, to him, would repay the cost to him, I should 
not worry, so I hastened to get ready. My sister helped 
with all her might, and my father seemed so pleased 
and overjoyed that that was a comfort and pleasure to 
me. But I couldn’t drive the thought from my mind 
that it was wealth and position that influenced my 
father and sister to insist on me going, and on me mar¬ 
rying Col. Crocker. 

“Next morning about nine o’clock, Col.Crocker and 
a driver arrived in a double seated hack, and my trunk 
was roped to the back end, and in less than half an hour 
we were on our way to the railroad, about seven miles 
away. My sister went that far with me, and my father 
and brothers were there to see me off. I was rather 
free and light hearted, for of course I expected to see 
all of these soon again. We didn’t have to wait a great 
while until the train came, and I bade them all good-bye. 
(Here Tom noticed some tears trickling eown Nina’s 
'cheeks, but she hurried on.) Late in the evening we 
reached the seaport. Col. Crocker secured quarters for 
me, and also for himself, near by. My trunk was al¬ 
ready In my berth when I entered. Everything was 
nice and comfortable. I unlocked my trunk, took out a 
book and commenced reading in my lighted apartment, 
and in a little while I felt the ship moving. It was 
dark, so I didn’t go out on deck. I read about two hours 
and then retired for the night, and was soon soundly 
■sleeping. When I awoke, it was broad daylight. I had 
never seen any great body of water, or seen a ship or 
steamboat, until about dark, the evening before, so I 
hastened to dress and get out on deck. And besides 
this, I had great expectations of seeing some friends or 
‘acquaintances; but in that I was badly disappointed, 
with the exception of Col. Crocker, who was watching 
for me, and met me with a pleasant smile, and began 
talking about the pleasures of a voyage and the beauties 





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of the sea, and all sure did seem lovely to me, and I 
really felt some weakness as to whether I could resist 
Col. Crocker's pleadings for me to become his wife, much 
longer or not. He had discarded his uniform, and had 
a real neat and beautiful suit, and he looked better to me 
than I had ever seen him. And taking me by my arm, 
he said: ‘Come, little sea bird, let’s go and get some 
breakfast. After we had eaten, we went back on deck, 
and several ladies were there and others appeared later, 
but all were strangers to me; and as Col. Crocker was 
so kind and attentive, I didn’t try to cultivate the ac¬ 
quaintance of any others much. You see, I was just a 
young girl, and had never been away from home or seen 
but a little speck of the world; so I would naturally cling 
to the only one I knew on board the ship. He seemed 
very much surprised, and made all sorts of explanations, 
excuses and apologies for the absence of any of my home 
people on board the ship. 

“Evrything went smoothly for several days, except 
at night, all alone, I would get to thinking sometimes 
about marrying Col. Crocker, and then my old resent¬ 
ment and abhorrance would get hold of me, and^ we’d 
have the old contest over, and I would come out winner. 
I would think of British oppression, of militarism, of 
war. And then I would think of my father and older 
sister trying to force me to marry him, for wealth, po¬ 
sition and popularity; and that was what always won 
the battle for me. For I thoroughly abhorred the idea 
of marrying a man for either wealth or popularity. I 
felt sure, some how, that it was my beauty—if you will 
pardon me—that Col. Crocker admired so much, and not 
my real self; and that if I married him, the novelty 
would soon wear off, and he would then say: ‘Oh, you 
just married me for my money.’ And then you may 
imagine how I would feel. No, when I marry, it will be 
for love, and not for riches or popularity. At last, the 
climax came—one moonlight night, we were sitting off 
to ourselves talking, and he brought the old question up 
and came squarely to the point and said: ‘Nina, I have 
been waiting long enough, and I want to know whether 
you have and intention of ever marrying me or not.’ I 
said: ‘Mr.- Crocker, you know I never did make you 
any promise, or hold out any inducements for you to 
marry me, and I wish you would be kind enough to talk 
about something else.’ Then, for the first time, I dis- 








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covered his anger and resentment, as he retorted: 
“Then, if you were sure you would never marry me, why 
did you accept my hospitality on this trip?’ I said: 
‘Because I was forced to it by your insistence and per¬ 
sistence, and by my father and sister’s nagging and 
urging, and I concluded at last if my company was worth 
the cost of the voyage to you, then you would be losing 
nothing; so I decided to come with you, and accepted 
your hospitality, as you very well know, and at your 
solicitation.’ Then he used some language of which I 
thought him incapable, and wound up b saying: ‘We 
will not discuss this matter any further tonight.' And 
he left me abruptly and retired to his berth, and I went 
to mine. You can’t imagine how I felt that night, 
though you may picture my condition. I was now hun¬ 
dreds of miles from home and friends—out on the broad 
and mighty ocean—without money or anyone except 
Col. Crocker, to care for me, and now he had turned on 
me and berated me for coming with him. Of course, I 
ought not to have come with him, but I was almost 
driven from home, and he insisted so strongly, and said 
he had plenty of money, and it was as free as the waters 
that flow, and that it would be an immense pleasure to 
him for me to take this pleasure trip with him, at his 
expense. 

“That night I realized, for the first time, that he 
thought he had a mortgage on me, and he had just at¬ 
tempted the foreclosure.” 

Here, Nina jumped up, as she said: “Oh, I must 
go! I’ll take up this narrative at another time, where 
I left off,” and she hurried away. 

Bill and Tom were busy making improvements 
and added comforts, among which was a good hewed log 
house for themselves. They were also teaching the na¬ 
tives how to do many things, and in this way things 
moved along for several weeks. Then, one night after 
supper, they were all alone in their new log house, and 
Bill, thinking Tom had carefully considered the specula¬ 
tive schemes he had presented a few days previous, and 
was now perhaps convinced of the great financial im¬ 
portance of them and was in a more receptive mood, he 
brought up the subject again. Tom truly had carefully 
noted and considered every point in Bill’s previous nar¬ 
rative of speculative schemes and stored them away in 
his mind. He was an apt learner, and he took great in- 




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terest in this—Bill’s second presentation of schemes, 
plots, plans and calculations— and this greatly encour¬ 
aged Bill and supplied fuel for his flighty and imagin¬ 
ative genius, of which he was well endowed by reason of 
training, for he was “a chip o : ff the old block,” and then 
some. So, seeing that Tom was all attention, he boldly 
launched out as follows: “Now, Tom, you have had 
time to reflect and think this matter over, and I want to 
briefly show you again what a great snap and what im¬ 
mense opportunities we have here, and how we con turn 
everything to our advantage and accumulate great 
wealth, with little effort on our part, and I want you to 
get every word and detail well fixed in your mind.” 
“Alright,” said Tom, “Go ahead and I’ll try to get and 
retain it all.” So, with such encouragement from Tom, 
Bill began in glowing terms: “First, I will take up the 
land proposition, and show you how easily we can man¬ 
age that. You see this great body of fine land, in its 
virgin state, with its fine forests of valuable timbers, 
and no telling what valuable deposits of coal, minerals, 
oils and others of local and commercial value, and these 
people know almost nothing of the great values and pos¬ 
sibilities of these and of this Island. And 1 m going to 
show how we can manage everything our way, so that 
we can get the ownership of most and the best of it, and 
almost absolute control of the balance, and also of most 
all production.” “Alright, Bill, I’m listening,” said Tom. 
“Well, we’ll show these people that it is necessary to sur¬ 
vey this land and establish corners and boundaries and 
make a record of it all. And while doing this, we will 
make a private record and carefully note all of the most 
valuable lands for cultivation, valuable timber or other 
valuable considerations such as coal minerals, oils, 
water power for mills and machinery, and for irrigation, 
etc., that we may discover, or indications thereof. The 
most valuable tracts we could, for convenience, mark 
with very small letters or figures, representing the qual¬ 
ity or valuable consideration. No one would notice 
these small indicators. We’ll allow each man and each 
woman 200 acres—or a single man 200, and a man and 
his wife 400 acres. Also, we’ll allow the heads of fam¬ 
ilies to take up 200 acres for each child under 18 years 
of age—all over 18 considered men and women. Now 
listen! We’ll take one tenth, or ten acres, for each 100 






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acres surveyed, platted and recorded, as our fee, and 
we’ll select this anywhere that we want it. You see, 
this gives us first choice. You’ve got that stored away, 
have you, Tom?” “Sure I have, Bill.” “Alright, then 
we will arrange so that the heads of families can sell 
their minor children’s allotments, and put the money in 
the bank that we will establish, at 3 per cent until they 
reach the age of 18. Now, we will re-loan this money 
to the people at from 8 per cent to any amount we see 
fit to charge or can get, and we’ll take mortgages on 
lands or other valuables, and when they can’t pay, we’ll 
foreclose and take the lands or other valuables. We 
will keep on the safe side by not loaning more than half 
of the value, and of course we will make or control all 
valuation. And furthermore, Tom, we will issue bank 
notes to the amount of all the moneys and mortgages 
we hold, even on deposits and sales of minors’ claims, 
and other valuables we may hold. You see, we will con¬ 
trol the government that we will establish, and we’ll 
issue the money and control all mediums of exchange. 
We will loan money to run the government at about 6 
per cent interest, and take govrenment bonds, drawing 4 
per cent, and non-taxable, at that, and we will issue bank 
notes on these bonds to buy more bonds with, on which 
to issue more bank notes; or with these bank notes we 
can buy mor minors’ claims and issue more bank notes 
on this money re-deposited with us. So, you see, it is a 
wheel within a wheel, that keeps revolving and dropping 
dollars into our till either way it is turned. You see, 
$10 may make us a thousand in a very little while, and 
really none of ours, except you might say, the interest 
we draw on other people’s money deposited with us. 
Can you beat that, old boy?” “Well, it’s some scheme, 
Bill, I admit.” “Yes, Tom, and when we control the is¬ 
suing of money, the circulating medium of exchange, 
and the banking business, then we have about got every¬ 
thing else cornered. Don’t you see?” “Yes,” said Tom. 
“I see clearly. When we have managed to get owner¬ 
ship and control of all the most valuable lands, water 
power sites, etc. we’ll have mills, factories, machinery 
and public works erected and operated by the poor work¬ 
ing people for our benefit and profit at small wages to 
them and big profits to us. So we will control the out¬ 
put, the prices and the wages, you see. Of course, there 




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are many other schemes and plans that I could outline, 
and many others that will appear, or that we may work 
out whereby we can make big money and big profits for 
our own special interests, cut of these people, and out of 
the government that we shall establish, and out of the 
land and natural resources. Also, trade, traffic, trans¬ 
portation, buying, selling, shipping, and all public busi¬ 
ness and utilities. You see, we can arrange everything 
so that we can pass the “buck” back to the people, or on 
to the consumers. They yill do the work, pay all the 
costs, all of the taxes, all expenses, all salaries, and even 
their own wages, for it all comes out of what they pro¬ 
duce. Yes, they will pay everything, direct or indirect. 
To put it all in a nutshell, Tom, we’ll manage the gov¬ 
ernment, the laws, the business, the labor, the educa¬ 
tion, the courts, public sentiment and public institutions, 
so that we can accumulate vast wealth and reap great 
profits from it all. And after we get these in operation, 
we don’t need to bother or worry about them, for we can 
have other men and women to manage them >or us and 
do the worrying for the wages, or salaries, we see fit to 
allow them. We’ll just watch our fortunes piS up, and 
spend what we can—that’s all. Now, Tom, I think this 
sufficiently outlines my plans, and I want to know what 
you think about it.” 

“Well, Bill,” said Tom, “I am your friend, I like you, 
and I am reardy to do you any kindness or favor at my 
command, that is honorable, fair, square and just. But 
your selfish, devilish, greedy grasping, vile, _ dishonest, 
inhuman and detestable schemes and machinations, I 
utterly detest, and abhor. Bill, you are an educated 
monstrosity—a trained financial cannibal, a creature of 
lust and covetousness' and it surely seems like you are 
absolutely devoid of honor, conscience or real manly 
principles, of fairness, justice or mercy, of love, human 
sympathy or kindness, of a realization of the rights and 
interests of others and the great and noble principles of 
brotherhood and righteousness are strangers to you, and 
you know them not. But listen, Bill! It is not Bill 
Bond that I am denouncing in such harsh and scathing- 
terms, but it’s the principles that have been inculcated 
into Bill Bond’s mind by wrong training, bad associa¬ 
tions, evil surroundings and corrupting environments. 
You are the creature of and a slave to these and to cut- 








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tivated bad habits.. Bill, you have never found your 
real self—you have never had real manly thoughts or 
training. You have been too intimate and too closely 
related to your real and worst enemy—selfishness and 
greed. Considering your past life and influences, Bill, 
I do not wonder at your sordid, warped, selfish and cor¬ 
rupt propensities. But, Bill, you are not altogether 
bad, and you are a man of fine intelligence, and you can 
go straight and be a man, instead of a beast, If you will, 
and I hope you will.” 

Bill had never felt so mean and humiliated in all of 
his life. Every word hit the spot and pierced like an ar¬ 
row point. No one had ever pointed out to him his 
faults, bad habits and evil traits. No one had ever ad¬ 
vised him In right principles, right actions, right think¬ 
ing and right living, or of the great and noble purposes 
of a real manly, just, unselfish and useful life, so his 
thoughts had never run on that line, neither had he 
considered the rights and interests of other,people. But 
now his reason, intelligence and good sense told him 
that Tom was telling him the truth, and that he was do¬ 
ing it as a real friend and for his good, so he listened 
attentivelv while Tom presented the real principles of a 
true gentleman, of real good citizenship, of real civili¬ 
zation, of honest business, of a just and honest govern¬ 
ment. of just, fair and honest laws and of honest living. 
For Tom explained all of these points in a way that he 
had never heard or thought of, and he did it in such a 
positive manner, yet in such a kind and gentle spirit, 
that every word reached Bill’s heart and made a good 
and lasting impression. Finally, Tom closed and as he 
did so, both his an dBill’s cheeks were wet with tears. 
Bill arose and grasped Tom’s hand as he said: "Tom, 
you have made a man of me. You held me transfixed, 
as it were, before a looking glass, and made me see my¬ 
self as I was, in all of mv ugliness and the useless and 
beastly life I have been living, and you have shown me 
how to live and how to he a man. You showed me what 
made me a beast and what will make me a man and from 
this day on, I am going to be a man. Tom, you are the 
best friend I’ve got on earth, and you have done more 
for me. A useful and haopv life now spreads out before 
me. In this lecture you have opened up a new world to 
me—-a new vision and a new life. As the old selfish, 







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beastly life rolled away; the beautiful, natural, unselfish 
useful and real life unfolded before me and appeared in 
its lovely and beautiful splendor and I wouldn’t exchange 
it for the whole city of Chicago, If I can reward you 
with love, devotion and true friendship, Tom, it will be 
my greatest pleasure, and I’m* at your service in every 
undertaking. I had rather be here with you, Nina ana 
these honest, simple and true people than to be in Chi¬ 
cago, with all of its glittering splendor, follies, shams, 
corruptions and monstrous evils—-yes, a thousand times 
had I rather be here with you all. Lite there is nothing 
to me now; but here it will be full of beauty, reality and 
usefulness. Yes, this is the life for me. We will 
change the picture from what I painted it, in its deform¬ 
ity and ugliness, for the natural and beautiful one you 
so kindly presented to me. We will wipe out the ugly 
stains of greed, selfishness, fraud and corruption, and 
paint it with love, justice, fairness and usefulness to all. 
The tears were running down Tom’s cheeks, but they 
were tears of joy, and again taking Bill by the hand with 
a grip of joy and earnestness, he said: “May God 
bless you. Bill, and keep you steadfast in your brave 
and noble resolve. Truly, we hav a great work to do 
here, and a useful, happy and eventful life to live, which 
now so plainly opens up to our vision. May a just and 
loving God help us to do our best.” And from that day 
on, they bent their energies to the great undertaking of 
educating, building up and putting into execution all 
manner of improvements and benefits for the people of 
the Island, collectively, instead of for themselves indi¬ 
vidually. 

“You and I and Nina,” said Bill, “ with the help of 
God and good health, are going to reach and achieve 
that state in life and civilization never heretofore at¬ 
tained in the history of the World. Yes, we have the 
vision, the spirit, the determination and the opportunity 
and will find the way and the means. Yes, my dearest 
friend, I am happy and contented to stay right here on 
this beautiful Island and do my best, so let’s push right 
on to success and make this truly an Islanu of Liberty, 
contentment and happiness. Truly, the field of useful 
ness that opens up before us is great. There is much 
to do, and, Oh, what pleasure and happiness this great 
useful and unselfish work will be to each of us.” 








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“Yes,” said Tom. “You are exactly right now. 
Bill, and every word yon have just spoken is true and 
exactly to the point. Now we are ready for action. 
But to rapidly install and carry forward our work, we 
must get in touch with the outside world, and that is 
going to be a great problem. The first thing to do is to 
■consult with Nina and explain our plans and purposes, 
and have her explain, as best she can, to Lobo and his 
people, for of course we must have their consent and 
co-operation. You, Nina and I must get our heads and 
hearts together in this great work and hold frequent 
counsel together, and also counsel with Chief Lobo and 
his people.” 

All was explained to Nina and to all of It she heart¬ 
ily agreed, and she explained, as best she could in a 
short and simple way, to Chief Lobo and his people, and 
they accepted and entered enthusiastically into the 
movement, for they had Implicit confidence *n Nina and 
Tom, and Nina convinced them of Bill’s sincerity. And 
having such great confidence in them, and realizing 
their superior knowledge and ability, thev were ready 
to accept their counsel and leadership. The first thing 
In point now was to get all the useful parts of the 
wrecked ship together that could be found, and with the 
tools they had saved, and new parts they would make, 
they would make a boat, as best they could, and get in 
touch with some other inhabited Island, where they 
could get supplies, tools, machinery, seeds and other 
things of most urgent importance. Another thing was 
locating a suitable place for a landing, or port, and let 
those who wished to move to that point. 

So next morning. Bill, Tom and some of the chief 
counsellors went south to the shore, some 10 miles from 
the village. By agreement. Bill took part of the men 
and Tom the others, and started in opposite directions, 
exploring the coast line each way, and they were to 
meet back there the next day. By noon next day, they 
were back and reports compared. Bill had decidedly 
the best report. He had gone west and found a fine lo¬ 
cation, about 5 miles from the starting point, but think¬ 
ing they might still find something better, they went on 
some 4 or 5 miles further, and encamped for tne night. 
Tom and his men had gone some 10 or 12 miles to the 
east and encamped, and both were now back at the 





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starting point. Bill Lad found two fine springs of 
water about a mile back from the shore that sent a oeau- 
tiful stream of clear water into the salty ocean. The* 
springs would afford an abundance of fine, cold and de¬ 
licious water. It was. also a fine place for a wharf and 
landing; so there they decided to make their new town 
and seaport. And they returned to the village and re¬ 
ported that evening. All were well pleased with the ar- 
arrangements, and some began at once preparing to 
move to the new seaport. Bill, Tom and some others 
started next morning for what they could find of the* 
wreckage and life boats. Tom and Bill had already se¬ 
cured two life boats and quite a lot of lumber. They 
found these all on dry land and put the boats into the 
water at once to soak, for the sun had dried them out 
so they would leak some in places. Next morning these 
were loaded and Tom and some of the men took them 
around the Island beach to the town site, while Bill and 
the others searched for other life boats, lumber and 
useful material and wreckage, and prepared it for ship¬ 
ment. They found another life boat, but it was pretty 
badly damaged, and they found more lumber. On the 
second night Tom and his crew reached the port, being 
guided by the fires of those already there. Next day 
they started on the return for more material for the new 
sail boat they were going to construct; and these suc¬ 
cessive trips were kept up until all of the material and 
things of value were transported to the new location. 
With this material and what they worked out with the 
tools they had, they constructed a tolerably good, but 
rather rough boat. And Bill and Tom selected three 
men and they, with the help of Nina, gave them some 
training. Then they made ready for the first voyage. 
Provisions were prepared, and Tom and Bill had a pretty 
good idea as to what would be of value to take along for 
trading—pelts, furs, etc. They also had some valuables 
from the wreck to take along, and with these to ex¬ 
change for much needed supplies, they sailed away—- 
they knew not where. But they had faith in God's pro¬ 
tection and confidence in themselves, and determination 
to succeed. The weather was fine, and on the third day 
out they discovered a passing ship in the distance, and 
headed in toward the way it was going- to intercept it. 
When clowe enough, they signaled, and the other an- 









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33 


swered and came meeting them. When they came 
along side of each other, Bill and Tom asked for direc¬ 
tions to a trading piace, where they could get supplies; 
and they gave the desired information. It was not far 
away, and about an hour before sunset, they hove in 
sight of land, which they reached in the early part of 
the night. Next morning Bill and Tom went up into the 
town to investigate, and they found that they could get 
plenty of such things as they needed, for that load, at 
least. They bartered and bought a load of these anrl 
got them all on board, ready for sailing next morning. 
Among other things, they got a small engine and a saw 
for cutting lumber, and a mill for grinding, and some 
other machinery. The engine could be used for any of 
these, and could be fired with wood, and of this they had 
an abundance, and fine timber to cut into lumber. (They 
got a planer next trip to dress their lumoer, and paint 
for painting purposes. They bought blacksmith’s 
tools, nails, bolts, screws, hoes, plows and many other 
needful articles.) The weather was fine, and they 
landed back on this first trip safely and without any 
misshap. The people on land were anxiously watching 
for their return, and they were overjoyed to see them 
returning to them again, and their joy increased as they 
learned of their success, and all were in high spirits and 
anxious to do anything and everything they could, and 
now all went to work with a will, under Tom, Bill and 
Nina’s directions. Under Nina’s instructions, and with 
the help of Tom and Bill, the natives were learning very 
fast, and no more faithful and devoted people could be 
found anywhere on the globe. Even the children were 
ever watchful for something to do and enjoyed the do¬ 
ing. Some wheat and corn were brought for planting 
and for bread, and the mills were soon installed, and 
corn and wheat ground, and lumber sawed for building, 
and all were soon comfortably housed—some in town 
and some in the country, and some remained at the vil¬ 
lage. Some were clearing and planting crops and gar¬ 
dens, under Tom’s instructions, as he was raised on the 
farm, and understood farming best. Others were do¬ 
ing other work under instructions of Bill, Nina and Tom. 
and harmony, happiness and contentment prevailed 
amongst them all. 

After sawing some lumber, of commercial value, 




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and accumulating some other stuff to trade for any¬ 
thing needed, Bill, Tom and their crew made another 
trip. On this trip, they traded their boat for a larger 
and better one, paying some difference. After this, 
and when they had gotten things well started, these 
trips became quite frequent. Nina managed affairs 
when both Bill and Tom were away. Everything work¬ 
ed like clock work, and everyone large enough and able 
to work had a job and a part to perform at some useful 
labor or business, and all enjoyed doing their part. No 
one had any desire to shirk, and if he should do such a 
thing, he would be scorned by all. All had free access 
to the land, and there was no land monopoly. Use and 
occupation was the only personal title to land. No one 
could control more than he could use. They had no 
enemies, and needed no navy or army, jails or peniten¬ 
tiaries; hence, no expense for any of these. They had 
no graft or profiteering, no bribery or corruption, and 
needed no lawyers or courts. If differences arose, which 
was very rare, it was settled by agreement or arbitra¬ 
tion, or by the government council, except matters of a 
public nature, or pertaining to the public interest. The 
welfare of each was the welfare of all—all for each and 
each for all. The prosperity, the public good and the 
honor of the Island depended on each individual, and 
each one was responsible, and felt and realized his re¬ 
sponsibility, and tried his best to do his alloted or chos¬ 
en part. 

Tom and Bill, with Nina’s assistance, were the chief 
advisers and managers of all public affairs; and they 
were true, just, fair and honest counselors, and were 
capable of meeting every emergency and solving every 
problem. Bill was Chief Counselor, Tom was secretary, 
and Nina was Treasurer and keeper of records and de¬ 
posits. She also issued scrip, when necessary, for public 
purpose and public expense, and as a circulating me¬ 
dium for Liberty Island, and it was good for all debts, 
and for all dues to the government of Liberty Island. 
This scrip was full legal tender, was as good as gold and 
bore no interest. Its expense was very little to the gov¬ 
ernment of Liberty Island, but its honor was as care¬ 
fully guarded as the treasury itself. These pieces of 
scrip, or treasury notes, had the official stamp of the 
government on them, and the endorsement of the Coun 






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35 


cil and head officials, and that made them absolutely 
safe and good—much better than any bank note could 
possibly be, or any private endorsement of any man or 
men. 

After making a few trips to the other Island, the 
people and merchants there began taking this scrip in 
exchange for goods or anything they wished to buy, and 
they began to send boats to Liberty Island to buy lum¬ 
ber, produce and other marketable stuff, and this scrip, 
or Treasury notes, was gladly accepted for anything the 
people of the Island had to sell. Government buildings 
were erected, public institutions established, public 
works carried on, and all public expense and public util¬ 
ities paid for and maintained by and through the use of 
these Treasury notes. All could get work, either for 
themselves or for the government—they could take 
their choice—and they got all they earned. A large 
portion of them took to farming, gardening, horticul¬ 
ture, stock raising, etc., and most of those in towns were 
on public works, or in business. Some came from the 
other Island to make their homes with these prosperous 
and contented people, and they were gladly accepted, 
adoption under the laws, rulings and regulations of 
this little free Republic. 

Now, as Bill, Tom and Nina have their little free 
Republic established and running on a high plane of 
justice, liberty and the golden rule— with equal rights 
to all and special privileges to none—without graft, cor- 
ruption, profiteering, scheming, adulteration, deception 
or robbry in any way—without any autocracy, tyran¬ 
ny, oppression or slavery in any form—so now we will 
leave these people in their happy state and return to 
Nina’s recent experience, as she further related it to 
Tom. 

“I went to my apartment on the ship,” said Nina, 
“after the unpleasant and unexpected outburst of Col. 
Crocker, and securely locked the door. Then I fell 
across my cot and wept as I had never wept beiore, un¬ 
less it was when my dear mother died. I lay there and 
wept until late in the night, and finally cried myself to 
sleep; and I dreamed of my mother and of home, and 
then I dreamed of some monstrous, beastly man trying 
to kill me. When I awoke, the sun was shining, but I lay 
there thinking of last night’s experience and of what 




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was going to become of me. Col. Crocker had now re¬ 
vealed his real self to me, and he couldn’t further de¬ 
ceive me, and now I wondered what course he would pur¬ 
sue. That, I couldn’t tell or even imagine. I realized 
that I was a poor, lone and almost helpless girl, not yet 
16, and I had no idea what fate was in store for me. i 
might get a position, I thought, as a cook or waiter and 
pay my way. Anyway, I was determined to not give up. 
I had ambition and a will, and I was able to work and 
knew how, if I could only get the work to do. 

I didn’t want any breakfast, and was still in my 
room, when someone knocked lightly on my door, but I 
neither spoke nor moved. The knock was repeated, but 
I answered not. I knew it was Col. Crocker, and I did 
not want to see him. I heard him walk away. That 
was about 11 a. m. In about an hour he came back and 
knocked again, and I said, ‘Go way and don’t bother me.’ 
Then he spoke very kindly and said, ‘Nina, dear little 
girl, come out and let’s go and eat some dinner. Forget 
last night, and be your own dear little self again.’ I 
said, ‘Mr. Crocker, that is impossible.’ But he talked 
so pleasantly to me, and begged and coaxed until at last 
I unlocked the door and came out and went down and 
took dinner with him, as usual. What e*se could I do? 
Well, yes, I could have jumped overboard, but that was 
too cowardly, and I still wanted to live. After dinner 
he tried to make the evening pleasant, and he made no 
reference to last night’s unpleasantness, and I felt 
somewhat relieved. He continued very kind and atten¬ 
tive for the next few days. Then a storm arose in the 
night and by morning it was so strong that it was car¬ 
rying us far out of our course in spite of all the sailors 
could do, and continued so all day. 

“Late in the evening an Island was discovered, and 
the wind was driving us nearer and nearer to it, until at 
dark it was only a few miles away. But the storm was 
abating now, and as none of us slept much the night 
before, we retired early, and I, and I supposed all other 
passengers, were soon soundly sleeping. But in this, I 
was badly mistaken, for Col. Crocker and a man he had 
hired were not sleeping—they were very busy making 
preparations for a new venture, undreamed of and un¬ 
thought of by me or any- others, I suppose, on board the 
ship. At least, I feel sure no others knew anything of 





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it. Gel. Crocker had made some purchases during the 
day of things that he thought he would need, and he 
and his assistant made ready a small boat by the side of 
the ship, and soon after dark, had stealthily placed these 
purchases and their belongings in the boat. The storm 
quieted down, and it was now far into the night, and all 
sails were down and the ship moving but little, so the 
Captain and crew were taking a little rest. I had locked 
my door securely and was in a deep sleep, when Col. 
Crocker and his man instantly stuffed a gag into my 
mouth and tied a handkerchief over it, and bound my 
aims. In some way they had secured a Ley that un¬ 
locked my door, and had slipped in without awakening 
me. Col. Crocker told me to keen quiet—that they in 
tended no harm to me and wouldn’t hurt me in any way, 
unless by precautions taken to prevent alarm. ‘But,’ 
said he, ‘you must submit quietly and go along with us, 
and all will come around right in a little while.’ So 
hoping that they meant me no serious injury, and real¬ 
izing my helpless condition, and still having a little con¬ 
fidence in Col. Crocker, in spite of these impulsive ac¬ 
tions,! submitted, and they led me to the boat they had 
prepared, and put me in it. They told me if I didn’t 
come along quietly, they would be forced to carry me, 
and I couldn’t bear the thought of these men carrying 
me like a piece of baggage, so what else coudl I do? 

“Crocker returned and gathered up my belongings 
and placed them in my trunk, which happened to be un¬ 
locked, and brought it and placed it in the boat with me. 
Then they loosed the boat and moved quietly away from 
the ship. After we got quite a ways from the ship, the 
gag was removed and my hands released. The moon 
was now appearing in the east, and as they had care¬ 
fully noted the course to land, they could soon see the 
outlines of land ahead. We landed and went up onto 
the beach and sa/t down. As I was a little chilled, I 
took out some wraps and put, on. The men were soon 
soundly sleeping, but I still sat there in the moonlight 
and thought of my unhappy condition. I was almost 
distracted, and my mind seemed to be going round like 
winding blades. At last, I felt so sick and tired that I 
lay down to rest a little, and next I knew, Col. Crocker 
was awakening his assistant, whom he called Bob,. 
I Robert Mulligan). The sun was shining brightly, and 





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I looked for the ship, but it was gone. No wnere could 
I see it. No doubt, they had hoisted sails soon after 
the moon arose, and had sailed away to find their line 
again. The men brought some wood and made a fire, 
and we made some coffee and prepared breakfast. The 
men were just as kind to me as thy could be. After 
eating, we got into the boat and went slowly along near 
the shore, and after going some 6 or 7 miles, we came 
to the mouth of a small, sluggish stream, and started 
up it. We went up about 6 miles and camped for the 
night. I knew the men were well armed, so I didn’t 
have much fear of wild beasts, and as I had lost so much 
sleep, I slept well that night and felt much better next 
morning. That day we went on up about 15 miles fur¬ 
ther and camped again. The men, as they did the night 
before, carried up a lot of wood to make fires to fright¬ 
en wild beasts away; but the howling and hideous noises 
at night, in the wild forests, sometimes made me shud¬ 
der. We went on up a few miles further the next day 
and tied up the boat, and here the men decided to stay 
awhile and hunt. So after building me a big fire and 
hanging up some sheets and other things to scare away 
prowling wild beasts, and leaving me a loaded revolver 
and ammunition and teaching me how to load and use 
the revolver, they started out on a hunt. Seeing that I 
was left there in the wild woods to protect myself, I 
waited for the men to get out of hearing, and I took my 
revolver out to see how I could shoot. I summoned up 
all of my nerve and caution and took careful aim at a 
tree, some 70 yards away, and fired. Then I went to 
the tree and found where I had hit on one side, nearly 
missing the tree. Thus encouraged, I tried again, and 
this time I hit near the center. I kept practicing during 
their absence, and they heard me shoot as they return¬ 
ed, and I never missed the tree with a single shot, and 
hit the center with some. Hearing me shoot, the men 
hurried to camp to see what was the matter, but as they 
came in sight, they saw me standing by the fire, and 
slackened their speed and came on slowly to the camp. 
When they came near, they asked me what I was shoot- 
ing at, and I told them I was practicing, and I pointed to 
the tree and told them to go and see where I had hit. 
They went to the tree and examined it, and Crocker 
bawled out to me, ‘Bravo! You can take care of your- 




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39 


self, little girl/ and turning to Bob, he said, ‘If I was a 
bear, I wouldn’t want to risk a shot from her/ They 
both complimented me on my markmanship, and took 
seats on a log we used for that purpose. ‘By the way, 
Bob/ said Crocker, as they sat down, Ve had better be 
a little careful; she might take us for wild beast i 
prowling around and get one of us/ , 

“Now I had been doing some serious thinking, and 
I had prepared a little lecture for the men, and I thought 
this would be a good time to deliver it. So I proceeded 
as follows: ‘Gentlemen, I have a little lecture for you, 
and I want you to carefully listen to it and considerately 
weigh it in your minds. Remember now, I am the 
speaker and you are the audience, and please don’t in¬ 
terrupt me.’ ‘Alright, little Queen, go ahead, and we’ll 
behave and give good attention/ said Crocker, with a 
twinkle in his eye. ‘Well/ I said, T am going to be very 
plain and pointed in my remarks, so that you may know 
exactly what I mean. You know, gentlemen, how, when 
I was innocently and unsuspectingly sleeping in my pri¬ 
vate room on the ship, you two men plotted my kidnap¬ 
ping, and stealthily unlocked my door, with a key un¬ 
known to me, and entered my room, and gagged me and 
tied me and brought me to this desolate Island—I don’t 
know just what your object or intentions were for so 
doing, though I have been doing much thinxing in the 
last few days, and nights also, and that move was so 
unexpected to me that I have but little idea as to what 
the next might be; so I have been trying to think and 
prepare for it, whatever it may be. I know, gentlemen, 
you can’t help seeing the awkward and strained situa¬ 
tion we are in, for you are men of intelligence. Now, 1 
am going to appeal to your honor, reason and manhood 
for you certainly yet have some left. But if you haven’t^ 
then I am going to give you a positive notice and fair 
warning ; and then I am going to make you a proposition. 
I am a lone girl that you men have forcibly brought to 
this lonely Island. I have no protection from any 
source, except from God and you two men. Now, I am 
going to make you a proposition, that, if accepted, will 
bring some sunshine into our lives, even here in this 
wild forest. But if my offer is not accepted, then I 
want to warn you that I have made up my mind. I am 
just a young girl, but I want you to know I am a girl 





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with a mind, a will and a resolution—with courage, am¬ 
bition. and determination; and I’ll never submit to slav¬ 
ery or intimidation in any way. In the language of the 
immortal Irishman, Patrick Henry, I say, ‘Give me lib¬ 
erty or give me death.’ I know you men do not want 
to kill me, neither do you want to be killed, or desire my 
death at my own hands. Now gentlemen, this is my 
offer, or proposition—If you men will be gentlemen, and 
treat me as a lady, then I will treat you men according¬ 
ly, and will try to make life as pleasant as possible, un¬ 
der the present situation, to all of us. Do you positive¬ 
ly and without reservation accept my proposition? Or 
do you reject it?’ 

“Both men readily accepted and pledged me their 
word and honor to a faithful compliance with the com¬ 
pact. Then Col. Crocker said, ‘Miss Nina, I am truly 
sorry that I have treated you as I have, and I promise 
you that I will try to make all amends that I possibly 
can. I am at your service, and am ready to do yout¬ 
bidding. I, myself, am truly thy slave, and I deserve it/ 
I said, ‘No, Mr. Crocker, I despise slavery in any form. 
All I ask is kindness and respect/ And he replied, 
‘That and protection you shall have, at the risk of my 
life, if necessary*’ Bob also accepted the terms and 
promised a faithful compliance. 

“These proceedings brought about a great change 
in the men, and they began talking about a habitation, 
or shelter of some sort, with the result that they began 
chopping and carrying poles to the camp to build 9 
cabin, with a partition in the middle, making two rooms 
one for them and one for me. The cabin was about 10 
by 16 feet. They spilt out slabs and smoothed them 
down with the axe they had brought with them, and 
made some doors with nails they had brought along. 
They put some poles on top and on these they carefully 
placed brush, with leaves on, to turn the rain. The very 
next day after the cabin was completed, we saw the 
clouds thickening, and pretty soon heard the muttering 
thunders in the distance, and just after dark the rain 
commenced, and it rained all night and until noon nert 
day. The roof was very thick and piled up high ij 
careful layers, and sloping from the top, over the cen 
ter, so it didn’t leak but very little. In the afternofu 
it cleared off bright and lovely again. Now I had a 







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41 


home, such as it was, and was a real housekeeper. The 
men now hunted or fished much of the time, and I stay¬ 
ed at the camp and put in much of my time reading the 
few books I had in my trunk, and in cooking. A few 
fowls, squirrels and other game came near the cabin, 
and I tried my aim on them, generally missing. We had 
been there more than a month when two natives of the 
Island chanced to discover our cabin, and also saw me 
standing by the fire on the outside, and they hastened 
back to the village and reported their discovery to the 
chief and others. Next morning the chief with about 
50 of his best men started out on an investigation. We 
were preparing dinner when Bob discovered a body of 
men not more than 300 yards away, and said, ‘Look yon¬ 
der! What will we do? They’ll kill us.’ But I said, 
‘Be quiet and I think all will come out right and will bet¬ 
ter our condition—anyway, there is no use to resist or 
show fight.’ 

“Up to this time, we had seen no sign of human 
life or habitation on the Island, apart from ourselves. 
When they saw that we had discovered them, they stop¬ 
ped and watched our movements for a while, and seeing 
that we made no demonstration of resistance, they sent 
a man forward. As he came on toward the cabin, Col. 
Crocker said, ‘We cannot escape, and as they are send¬ 
ing one forward alone, it seems as though they mean 
friendship, and that is just what we need right now, 
and must have if possible.’ So, suiting his actions to 
his words, he proceeded slowly to meet the man. As 
they met, Crocker met him with a pleasant smile and 
extended his hand, and the other did likewise, and each 
took the other by the hand with a friendly gnp. Seeing 
this, the others slowly advanced and the chief shook 
hands with Crocker, and then they all came on to the 
cabin and the chief shook hands with Bob also. Then 
he pointed to each of us, to himself and to his men, an i 
then he pointed toward .their village. We understood 
what he meant, and began preparations at once to go 
with them. The chief pointed to our dinner, now about 
ready, as if to say, ‘Eat first and then we’ll go.’ We 
motioned to him to eat with us, but he only pointed to¬ 
ward the village. 

“After eating, we were soon on the way. Crocker 
took hold of one handle to his trunk and Bob took the 






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other handle, and two of the natives took my trunk in 
like manner, and others gathered up other articles, in¬ 
cluding axe, saw, and some cooking vessels. We hadn’t 
gone far when two of the natives relieved the two car¬ 
rying my trunk, and two others relieved Crocker and 
Bob, and this was repeated until we reached the village 
late in the evening. The people looked at us with great 
curiosity, but acted in a welcoming, pleasant manner. 

“As nightfall was now approaching, we were as¬ 
signed quarters for the night. But I noticed a rather 
intelligent looking girl about my age, that seemed rath 
er friendly and attractive to me. I went to her and 
took her hand in mine as I pointed to the different habi¬ 
tations. She seemed to understand and pointed to her 
home. I moved in that direction, still holding her hand, 
and gently pulling. This she also understood, and I was 
permitted to go with her to her home. She motioned 
me to a seat and I sat down. Then she returned (after 
a few words with her folks that I couldn’t understand) 
to the chief and told him she wanted me to live with her. 
This pleased the chief, and I took up my abode with this 
beautiful and lovely girl of the wild forests, whose name 
I learned was Teela. But next day Teela and I were 
given a home all to ourselves, specially prepared for us, 
and strict orders were given that no one intrude or mo¬ 
lest us, and no one ever has. Teela and I became fast 
friends from the first day. Our attraction for each 
other seemed mutual from first sight, and I took great 
interest in her and in teaching her in every way that I 
could, and she did the same in teaching me their signs 
and language. And I have also used my time and ener¬ 
gies since I came here in instructing and in doing what 
I could to help these unlettered, honest, unspoiled, faith¬ 
ful and true people, in every way that I could help them. 
And such love, trust and devotion I never saw exhibited 
by any other people. I don’t believe there is an adult 
amongst them that wouldn’t risk their lives for me, or 
even die for me, if absolutely necessary; and many of 
the children would do the same. Such honest, true, 
pure minded and unselfish people are extremely rare in¬ 
deed. You may think I have had a sad and lonesome 
life here, but if you do, I want to assure you that you 
are badly mistaken. A life of such great usefulness 
here with these good and honest people is a great priv¬ 
ilege and pleasure to me. I can make my life so useful, 






LIBERTY ISLAND 


43 


beneficial and helpful to both them and myself that it 
is an immense pleasure to me, and I have no time for 
lonesomeness, homesickness or foolishness of any kind, 
and I don’t think anyone can enjoy their work better 
than I do. 

‘‘Well, now, I guess you want to know what became 
of Col. Crocker and Bob. Well, I just can’t tell you. 
When they saw how pleasantly I was domiciled with my 
dear little girl mate, and how I was devoting all of my 
time to the uplift and helpfulness of these people, and 
how respectful and devoted they were to me, and also to 
Teela, and how we had the love, admiration and protec¬ 
tion of every man, woman and even the children, and as 
the people didn’t affiliate with them much, but looked 
on them with suspicion, after learning how I had been 
kidnapped by them and brought to the Island, so they 
became greatly dissatisfied and spent mosx all their 
time hunting, or off to themselves. 

“At last, after being here about three months, one 
fine morning they started out on a hunt, as usual, and 
didn’t return that night. We supposed they were put¬ 
ting in two days on this hunt, and thought but little 
about it. But the second day and night passed, and 
still they hadn’t returned. Then some of the men start¬ 
ed in search of them. They went to our old cabin on 
the little river, and there they found live coals of fire 
in the ashes, and the men’s tracks around, but they, and 
also the boat, were gone, and have never more been 
seen or heard of by any of us. They may be somewhere 
on the Island or around the Island coast, or they may 
have gone out to sea in search of a passing ship. Poor, 
unhappy men. I pity them and feel sorry for them, but 
they brought their troubles on themselves.” 

(This installment of Nina’s experience followed a 
few days after the other, and soon after Tom and Bill 
came to the village.) 

One day, after Tom, Bill and Nina had gotten then- 
new Republic started and in working order, and each 
one assigned to their respective departments, Tom and 
Nina were spending a pleasant hour to themselves, in 
the cool shade of one of those great oak trees, when 
Tom said to Nina, “We are here on this lovely Island, 
working together in a great cause, and we expect to 
spend the remainder of our lives here, and I love you as 




44 


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I never can love another, and I never can give you up, or 
be separated from you in life; I must have your help 
and association, and as I feel sure that our love is mu¬ 
tual, then why not form a matrimonial partnership for 
life, and sail along through the voyage of life together? 
We need the help, encouragement and love of each other 
—or rather, already have that—and all that I can see 
that is lacking is a legal and lawful matrimonial cere¬ 
mony; and Bill, Chief Lobo and the Council, with you 
and I to complete and give it all the finishing touches, 
will fix all that—So why not formulate and make a legal 
matrimonial law, and you and I be the first couple to 
have said ceremony solemnized?” Nina sat smiling, 
while Tom was delivering his little speech, and at his 
conclusion, she replied: “My dearest friend, and as I 
truly believe, my sincere and true lover, it is with the 
greatest of pleasure, full confidence, highest of hopes, 
and with a heart overflowing with love and great an¬ 
ticipation for the future, that I accept your offer, and 
claim you as mine and give myself to you, if the contract 
can be legally consummated.” “We have a legally con¬ 
stituted government,” said Tom, “and we can formulate 
and make a legal matrimonial law.” So Tom explained 
to Bill, and Nina explained it all to Chief Lobo and the 
people. Then the council was called together, in which 
Tom, Bill and Nina formed a part, as chief advisors, as 
they did in all public affairs, and the matrimonial laws 
were formulated and legalized. Then the time was set 
for the nuptial ceremonies, and for a great feast to cel¬ 
ebrate the first marriage under the new law. But not 
only for that reason, but because of the fact that the 
main characters of the drama—Tom and Nina—were 
the two most dearly beloved and most highly esteemed 
people on Liberty Island. Hunters were sent out for a 
supply of the best meats of the forest for the occasion, 
and great preparations were made. On the wedding 
day, the whole population turned out and took part in 
the celebration. (This was soon after the second voy¬ 
age to the neighboring Island, so a great part of the 
work recited in the foregoing was accomplisned after 
Tom and Nina’s marriage, also another marriage to re¬ 
cite further along.) 

People were now coming from other Islands and 
settling on Liberty Island, as they had named their new 
Republic. But these new settlers had to accept, con- 







LIBERTY ISLAND 


45 


form to and be governed by the laws and regulations of 
Liberty Island. 

Now, under the teaching and training of Nina, her as¬ 
sociated girl friend, Teela, had become a most lovable, 
beautiful and accomplished little woman, with a fine 
mind, much intelligence and many noble qualities; and 
by these Bill was soon completely captivated by Teela. 
and they consummated the second marriage ceremony, 
under the new government of Liberty Island—the one 
government of liberty, justice and equal rights to all— 
where all must work who are fit, and all can get work, 
and get full value for their labor—where the old and 
the disabled are lovingly and tenderly cared for—where 
all the public utilities are operated and controlled by the 
government for the public good of all, and belong to the 
whole people. Hence, all are shareholders and share 
alike in all increase or profits from these public utili¬ 
ties and institutions, and where none of these are or 
can be used for private greed, private profit or as a 
means of exploiting of the government, the people, the 
workers or consumers—where all are protected in their 
homes, their rights, their lives and their private inter¬ 
ests alike, and with special privileges and advantages to 
none—where those who produce get the benefit of what 
they produce, or the value of it, and do not have to di¬ 
vide up with those who produce nothing, and give them 
the larger share—where grafting, profiteering, exploita¬ 
tion, corruption, bribery, and tyranny, autocracy, op¬ 
pression, injustice, and slavery and crime are scorned 
and despised by all—where love, justice, equal rights 
and the good of all rules supreme. 

Kind reader, wouldn’t you like to be there, and live 
under such a just, free, fair and uncorruptible govern¬ 
ment as this ? Don’t you really believe this is accord¬ 
ing to Christ’s teaching, and is what he taught his dis¬ 
ciples to pray for? Don’t you really believe that faith, 
hope, prayer and work must harmonize and work to¬ 
gether to bring resutls? Do you believe such condi¬ 
tions would hurt anybody or be unfair to anybody? 

About two years after the shipwreck and Tom and 
Bill’s remarkable escape to Liberty Island, and while 
Tom was at the seaport of the other Island on business, 
he learned that a steamer would make a landing there 
in a few days on its way to the U. S. Capital, and would 
pass near his old Virginia home. So when he returned 







46 


LIBERTY ISLAND 


to Liberty Island, he told Nina about ii and asked her 
how she would like to take a trip with him to his old 
home in Virginia. And Nina said, “Nothing in the 
world would please me better, Tom—by all means, let s 
take advantage of the opportunity.” And as Nina_ and 
Bill had given Teela a good education uid business 
training, so that she had become very proficient, it was 
all satisfactorily arranged for Bill and Teela to look af¬ 
ter public affairs while Tom and Niua were away. 

So Tom and Nina hastily prepared for the trip, and 
reached the other Island just the day before the steam¬ 
er arrived at that point on its way to Washington, D. C.> 
and on the following day, they bade good-bye to their 
friends who had come that far with them, and started 
for the old home of Tom's childhood days, with their 
hearts full of gladness and great anticipation. 

They had a fine trip, and stopped off at the same 
port from which Tom had sailed about two years be¬ 
fore. And Tom got a man with a rig to take them out 
next day to the old homestead. He didn't know wheth¬ 
er his parents were still living or not. At last they 
hove in sight of the old farm, with its familiar scenes, 
and his heart leaped with joy in anticipation of the hap¬ 
py meeting of his dear old father and mother. 

They drove up to the front gate, and Tom quickly 
alighted, and Nina followed. The old couple saw them 
get out and recognized their dearly beloved son, whom 
they were so anxiously watching for—-for they had 
made many excuses for him in their imagination, and 
were still hoping for his safe return to them. Mr. Je¬ 
rome gave the mother the right of way, and she and 
her dear boy were quickly clasped in each other's arms. 
Nina and Mr. Jerome stood and looked on until Tom re 
leased his mother and turned to his father. Then Nina 
stepped forward and caught Tom’s mother in her arms, 
as she exclaimed, “My mother and father, as well as 
Tom’s.” Then, in like manner, she embraced and kissed 
Tom's father. The driver was very much effected by 
the happy meeting, and never moved or spoke until now, 
when he bade them goodrbye, after congratulations to 
all, and drove away. Tom had already paid him before 
their arrival for his services. 

The old folks were not only filled with inexpress- 
able joy at the return of their only son, but they fell in 
love with Nina at first sight, and were overjoyed at the 






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reception of such a beautiful and accomplished little 
woman for a daughter, for Tom was their only child, 
but now he had brought them such a loving and lovable 
daughter. And they said they were bountifully repaid 
for Tom’s long absence. 

The news spread rapidly all over the surrounding 
country that Tom Jerome had returned and had brought 
with him a beautiful bride, and happy meetings and 
greetings came from all quarters. 

Tom had ascertained when the boat would be at 
their port on its return trip, and as they came with the 
intention of taking the old folks back with them (which 
proposition was gladly accepted by them) Tom and Mr. 
Jerome were very busy much of the time disposing of 
their Virginia possessions, and getting ready for the 
return trip to Liberty Island. 

The time for return soon arrived, and they, with 
Tom’s old friend, Jim Blagg, and his newly wedded wife, 
and a few others that had decided to make their future 
home on Liberty Island, after bidding their many 
friends farewell, proceeded to the port to await the ar¬ 
rival of their boat. And when the steamer arrived, 
they were all ready, and were soon on their way to Lib¬ 
erty Island. 

They had another pleasant voyage on the return 
trip, and when the steamer stopped at the neighbor 
Island port, their own boat was there waiting, in antici¬ 
pation of their return, and next day they sailed for their 
own lovely and happy Island, where the anxiously await¬ 
ing people discovered the approaching ship far out at 
sea, and soon assembled at the landing for a happy 
reception. 

Bill and Sheela were first to greet Tom and Nina, 
and to welcome those that had come with them to their 
free and happy country, in which Bill became very 
much enthused and very eloquent in a speech of wel¬ 
come. 

(Two Years Later.) 

Port Justice, their Capital, had become a beautiful 
city, and many industries were now established on the 
Island and in operation—all of which belonged to the 
people, and from which all benefitted. 

And young Victor Jerome and little Miss Nina Bond 
were among the last arrivals cm Liberty Island. 




48 


LIBERTY ISLAND 



0 take me to the land of the fair and the free. 
Not owned by Morgan and old John Dee, 

Where courts and officials can freely discharge 
Their unbound duty to the people at large. 


Where honor rules the statesmen and justice the courts 
And a working man’s rights are as sacred as the sport’s; 
Where tax-free bonds and profits don’t rule, 

And a poor man’s more than a slave voting mule. 


0 take me to the land where labor is king, 

Where greed and profits don’t corrupt everything, 
Where co-operative good is the rule of the land, 

And labor and justice has a fair and free hand. 


Where strikes are not needed and scabs never come. 
And v. orkers are rewarded for what they have done;; 
Where there is no shirkers, no grafters and drones. 
Where all can be happy and workers have homes. 


If there be such a place inhabited by man, 

Where the people are free, and unshackled the land; 
Then take me, O take me—as quick as you can, 

For if the mobs don’t get me, the Knights and KIux 
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